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10 Heller Enns
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Enns (Municipality of Enns) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic townscape vignette of Enns occupies the lower two-thirds of the note, rendered in a brownish-violet letterpress print and enclosed within a decorative scalloped border. The denomination '10' appears in large numerals at the upper left and upper right, flanking the arched Gothic-script legend across the top. The overall design is printed in a single monochrome tone on plain cream paper. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zweite Auflage Einlösungszeit bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Die Stadtgemeinde Enns gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Betrage von 56.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die richtige Einlösung dieser Scheine in gesetzlichem Bargelde mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Der Bürgermeister: 1. Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Gemeinderat: 2. Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Buchdruckerei Enns |
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Enns is among the oldest documented towns in Austria — Roman Lauriacum occupied the same site — but this 10 Heller note has nothing to do with antiquity. It exists because the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left small coins effectively absent from circulation. Municipalities across Austria printed their own Notgeld to fill the gap, and Enns was no exception, commissioning its local print shop to produce this issue in 1920.
Buchdruckerei Enns was a commercial jobbing printer, not a security press. The technical limitations show.